-Hindustan Times The shooting incidents — between May 17 and June 15 — that HT analysed resulted in 16 deaths and left at least 22 people injured New Delhi: At least 220 bullets have been fired on Delhi’s streets in 43 incidents of shooting reported in the Capital over the last 30 days, according to HT’s analysis of all such incidents at a time when senior police officers are expressing concern about...
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Arvind Subramanian's calculation of GDP is flawed too, says economist Arun Kumar
-Down to Earth He says neither the government not the former chief economic advisor include the unorganised sector while computing economic growth Noted economist Arun Kumar said former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian is correct in saying that the RATe of growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been overestimated in the last few years. Subramanian's methodology to gauge economic growth, however, may also not be correct — both being indirect methods...
More »The Dramatic Increase in the Unemployment RATe -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The Periodic Labour Force Survey Report 2017-18 clearly shows that there is a sudden jump in the unemployment RATes across-the-board in 2017-18, compared to all preceding rounds of the NSSO. The report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted in 2017-18 is finally out, and it confirms what had been leaked earlier, namely a dramatic increase in the unemployment RATe in the Indian economy. The unemployment RATe is given under...
More »Shaky building blocks -Shailaja Menon
-Newsclick.in The draft National Education Policy reinforces outdated ideas about the goals of a foundational literacy programme Many children in elementary classrooms across India cannot read and write proficiently, as demonstRATed on an annual basis by the Annual Status of Education Reports (ASER). This affects other school-based learning, as well as functioning in societies and economies that prize literacy. Capabilities of young children It was heartening, therefore, to see a chapter devoted to “Foundational...
More »Government reduces ESI contribution RATe to 4%, industry to save Rs 5,000 crore annually
-PTI NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday announced a cut in contributions made by employers and employees toward the health insurance scheme of Employees' State Insurance CorpoRATion (ESIC) to 4 per cent from the existing 6.5 per cent, a move which would lead to an estimated annual saving of around Rs 5,000 crore for firms. The reduced RATes will be effective from July 1, 2019, the labour ministry said in a release....
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